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To: nickcarraway

In ancient Greece, you could kill a child up to the age of two....if they were unwanted, inconvenient...didn’t matter. I studied this years ago. How could they have “forgotten” it? All cultures are not the same.


8 posted on 05/03/2021 4:37:20 AM PDT by Whatever Works
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To: Whatever Works

Yes, If an infant was deformed, or considered less than perfect in some way, I understood the practice was to bury them in a jar as a way to dispose of them.
The Viking upper classes had similar ideas: after birth the child was presented to the father; if he considered that it simply wasn’t up to scratch in any way, then out it went. (The babes were just abandoned in the forests).
Life was tough in those days - slavery was widespread - and they couldn’t afford to support the less able!


11 posted on 05/03/2021 6:06:49 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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